gassing

[ gas-ing ]

noun

1. an affecting, overcoming, or poisoning with gas or fumes.
2. the act of a person or thing that gasses.
3. a process by which something is gassed, gas, as in fumigation.
4. the evolution of gases during electrolysis.

gassing

/ ˈɡæsɪŋ /

noun

1. the act or process of supplying or treating with gas
2. the affecting or poisoning of persons with gas or fumes
3. the evolution of a gas, esp in electrolysis

Word History and Origins

Origin of gassing¹

gas + -ing ¹

Example Sentences

Bashar al-Assad is probably the first head of state to have improved his international status by gassing his own people.

From The Daily Beast

By the summer of l942, the Allies and most of the world knew that the Nazis were gassing Jews in Belzec, Sobibor, and Treblinka.

From The Daily Beast

I thought she'd do; she seemed a gossipy woman, kept on knitting and gassing over a stove in the hall.

From Project Gutenberg

He's setting there now, gassing with a lot of the players, telling funny stories and the like.

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And we have been sitting here, gassing, whilst— He broke off abruptly.

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You can't get out of it, after gassing so much about the place.

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Time someone thought about it instead of gassing about the what was it the pensive bosom of the silver effulgence.

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